In today’s competitive and rapidly changing workplace, ensuring optimum individual and organizational performance is crucial, yet most organizations have ineffective talent management and deployment processes. Many lead to such undesirable activities as:

• managers hanging on to their good staff
• jobs being created/sustained for poor performers rather the poor performance being addressed
• people being promoted because of who they know, not their potential to add value to the organization in the new role
• excellent candidates being overlooked
• people being promoted just because they are good at their current job, rather than because they have proven potential to add even more value in the next one
• people being promoted into inappropriate roles simply to meet their personal aspirations (i.e. a retention tactic) or to provide higher compensation and/or benefits.

Ensuring optimum individual and organizational performance is crucial, yet most organizations also have Performance Management processes that, at best, have little or no proven positive impact.

Auditing Your Processes
Pilat’s has a unique range of process audit instrumentsthat can audit your Talent Management processes and Performance Management processes. These can help you to diagnose areas of strength and weakness in these processes before you start investing time and money in making process of system changes. After all, there is little to be gained from investing in technology to support flawed processes.

The surveys are designed for multiple applications:

• you can complete it yourself to challenge and/or clarify your own thinking
• it can be completed by process owner(s) in your organization
• you can use it as an interview or discussion checklist
• it can be web-delivered to a selection of people-managers
  (e.g. all department heads or all managers of people)
• it can be web-delivered to all staff/employees or a sample
• and you may even think of other ways to use it.

Using The Survey Results
Results from Pilat's Audit Instruments can be particularly useful as input into organizational reviews of your processes and systems. Our team of consultants can also work with you to interpret the results, design new processes, and/or work with you on the implementation of new ones.